Emilia Romagna Castles

Clara Piacentini presents
*Bianca come l’Africa* (Aurea Nox)

A memoir that encapsulates a whole world. It does not recount a journey, but rather what remains once the journey is over, yet continues to live on within those who have returned.
The author recounts her experience of years spent in Ethiopia, encompassing daily life, encounters, work, illness, hardships and wonders. Africa emerges as a concrete and unyielding place, far removed from any idealisation, observed with attentive empathy and a sense of responsibility. It is a real space, inhabited by faces, gestures, voices and silences, but also an inner ‘elsewhere’ that continues to dwell in the heart.
*White as Africa* is a book that rejects exoticism and facile nostalgia. It recounts the deep and often painful bond with a place that leaves its mark, changes one and refuses to be consigned to the past.